Robert Chester Sheets (born June 7, 1937) is a meteorologist who served as the director of the National Hurricane Center from 1987 to 1995. He was born in Marion, Indiana.[1] He is well remembered for numerous interviews given from the Hurricane Center during Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Sheets also was a member and eventual director in Project Storm Fury, an attempt to modify hurricanes with silver iodide. Since retiring in 1995, Sheets has continued his relationship with the media, becoming a special-situation hurricane analyst with ABC network affiliates in Florida. He has also co-authored a book on hurricane information and stories.

The National Hurricane Center-Past, Present, and Future

ROBERT C. SHEETS

National Hurricane Center. Coral Gables. Florida

(Manuscript received 5 January 1990, in final form 15 February 1990)

ABSTRACT

The National Hunicane Center (NHC) is one of three national centers operated by the National Weather

Service (NWS). It has national and international responsibilities for the North Atlantic and eastern North

Pacific tropical and subtropical belts (including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea) for tropical analyses,